Go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html
1. Describe the stratification of American Society in the Gilded Age:2. What specific groups were in the lowest part of Society?
3. Why did immigrants turn to political machines?
Next page: Carnivals of Revenge-link at bottom of first page.
4. How many strikes occurred in the 1880s?5. What was governmental policy toward strikes?
6. What did laborers do in response to the hard line taken by factory owners and the government?
7. What is the result of the labor-owner clashes?
Next link: Millionaire’s Row-link at bottom of page
Read through Millionaires Row and check out the houses of the wealthy industrialists-it must be nice!8. What two “Robber Barons” worked out of Pittsburgh?
Next link: go to People and Events; click on Herbert Spencer (the funny looking guy)
9. Summarize the theory put forth by Spencer in his philosophy of Social Darwinism:Next link: http://www.shmoop.com/gilded-age/timeline.html
10. On the bottom of this sheet, using the timelines for the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s, organize a list of any TEN economic and political events of the Gilded Age such as mergers, deals, scandals, strikes, etc…organize by date!11. What is the main cause of all the turbulence of the Gilded Age? Explain:
